WHY ARE WE PROUD FOR BEING GREEK
· Because we are European Champions in football
· Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices
· Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces
· Because nights in Greece finish in the morning
· Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in "shots"
· Because flirting is our national hobby
· Because sex is our national sport
· Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it
· Because we are not puritans
· Because we are not racists
· Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless
· Because we know how to spend better that we know how to save
· Because we never visit others empty handed
· Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is "kapsoura"
(burning desire for someone)
· Because in Greece family is still something valuable
· Because we do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars
· Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment
· Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan war)
· Because we are everywhere around the planet
· Because we love and hate with passion
· Because "filotimo" (friend of honor, helping someone because it is a
shame not to) doesn' t exist in any other language
· Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours
· Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family,
not with shrinks
· Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek
· Because we invented theatre
· Because we gave birth to Democracy
· Because we discovered logic
· Because we jumpstarted science
· Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars
· Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol
· Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still
sleeping on trees
· Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for
peace by making wars
· Because we can give anything up just to make love
· Because Hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to get
laid
· Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi
(innocent love), while we feel both passionately
· Because Eros was a Greek God
· Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin were weaving
see-through linen
· Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks"
(Winston Churchill, 1941)
· Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good anyway
· Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval
alphabet to the Slavs
· Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker
· Because we are not ashamed to cry
· Because we dance when we are sad
· Because we work to live and we do not live to work
· Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek
· Because although we know danger well, we dare
· Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns around
· Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal
· Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder
· Because we do not know what anxiety is
· Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are
traffic jams
· Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are
traffic jams
· Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00 or
4:00 o'clock in the morning
· Because we are direct
· Because we never report people who cheat
· Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually
indirect or illegal
· Because we have tendencies to extremity
· Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18
· Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl
on grass or jump into fountains
· Because we confront every difficulty with humor
· Because the Olympic games were born here
· Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the
message of peace
· Because our sky is blue, not gray
· Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet
· Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words
· Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens
· Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means
· Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still
fresh
· Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned it into
a movie just recently
· Because in Greece nobody is hungry
· Because in Greece nobody is homeless
· Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!
· Because our "model for life" has many curves
· Because we wear sandals without socks
· Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday
morning
· Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"
· Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts